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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

OXYGEN CURE. Throat, lung, nervous dis.
eases. Bookfree. Dr.. Geppert,C i~ncinnati,O.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

WIT is q chicken pie like a. gunsmith's
shopa Because it contains fowlin- pieces.
-Nep Age
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

TIE best cough medicine Is Piso's Cur
for Consumption. Sold every where. Csc
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

Its thousands OF cures are the best adyer-
tisement for DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

EARLY seed ralsers-the hena-Pepr.-r
Gardening.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

NEVER abuse q mule behind his back
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

Ii afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaat
Thompson's EyeWater. Druggists sellit25c
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

ABOUT the worst examples q boy meet
with are in the arithmetic.-Puek.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
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of money, but received no lasting
persuaded me to try your medict
becarrse / was p~rejudfced against
they would do me no good. / FL
he would get me seme of your
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ten dollars. I took three bottles
'Favoritc Prescription and I have
years. / then gave the balance of !
was troubled In the same way, ar
time. / have not had to take 4
four years."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

repeated, until, unable to bear it long
er, as the steps neared the top she eau
tiously opened the door and put out
her head. As she did so she saw a
hand, though nobody was visible, press
against the other side and push with
such force that she was obliged to step
back into the room.
Unlike the other woman, she neither
screamed nor tainted. She waited till
the steps had descended the stairs, then
placing a light in the hall and locking
the door on the outside she rushed to
the station, a short distance away, and
told the police. Two officers returned
with her. She unlocked the door and
went in. But she was Mortified to find
that her baby, which she had left in bed
and asleep was gone. The officers
searched the premises and found it in
the stove oven-there was no fire-and
her pet poodle-dog "a hanging by the
neck to a door-knob, tied with a piece
of ribbon she declared she had never
seen. The officers remained with her
the rest of the night, but all was quiet
as usual.
An enterprising reporter found it out
and published the facts, and for several
succeeding nights the street was
thronged with people, all anxious to
see the ghost, but it did not appear.
But where the ghostly hand had pressed
the door were five plain finger-marks
in blood, OF something very like it, seen
by thousands. The people moved away
and the rooms were long vacant.
The ghost at the old courthouse had
quite a run during its brief engage
ment, and created quite a sensation.
Long years ago the gloomy old court
house, with its memorable beethoven,
stood on the spot now occupied by the
city and county building. The Jail was
IN the basement--a low-ceiled, uncom-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

The sFavorite Prescripti
poor suffering women"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

as they imagine, one from dyspe
or prostration, another
and Indifferent, or over-busy doct
. such, when. in reality, they are {
encourages his practice until laI
'rong treatment and consequent OF
Id have entirely removed the dis
d misery.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

OF his neighbors are engaged in dairy
ing. The milk of about five hundred
cows is wanted to warrant the cstab-
lishment of a commercial or Corpora
tive creamery or cheese factory. Unless
a man has a very large farm he will
not find it convenient or economical
to keep o than twenty-five mich
cows. As this is the case, concert of
action between twenty farmers living
within a radius of about two miles of
the factory will be necessary to insure
its support. Observation in most parts
of this country, as well as in England,
Holland and Denmark. shows that
dairying is most profitable in localities
that are almost entirely given up to it.
In %dairying, as in most other industries,
skill and profit result from the inter-
change of ideas. The largest yields of
milk are generally obtained in the
great dairy regions. In them the poor
milking stock is weeded out. Persons
become expert mixers in childhood,
and at an early age are good Judges of
cows, while they understand how to
tiNi tphC SdiC Va CllCLl.
Concert of action is of great advan-
tage to the breeders of all kinds of
stock. The high reputation of American
merino sheep is due to the united labors
of a few careful breeders in Vermont.
The generous rivalry excited by the Of
fering of large premiums at State and
county fairs made every sheep-raiser
anxious to see his name at the head of
the list of prize takers. They desired no
higher honor han to see in the local
newspapers their names associated
with the heaviest fleece of wool pro-
duced in the State. Similar causes
resulted in bringing up the quality of
fast horses in Kentucky, of mules in
Missouri, and of shorthorn cattle in
Central Illinois. Raising tobacco suit
able for cigar wrappers became profit
aba in the valley of the Connecticut
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02

A Marvellous Cure-Ma g: +. SrRAou1.
Of Crystal, .Mtch- writes; II was troubled with
womb for seven years, 30 ] had to keep my bed
for a good part of the time. Idoctored with an
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-02
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alone. I began taking DR.. Pierce's En-
using the local treatment recommended
menitSSai A sIss l ! o c,,rsd snd 70 S.W mp /
wrote q letter to my family paper, brfe
health had been restored, and offering TO
to any one writing me for them, and
pel0pe for reply. I have received owe
In reply, I have described my cas- al
and have earnestly advised them to do
many I have received second letters of I
had commenced the use of .Fayorite Pl
S150 required for the Medical Adviser
local treatment so fully and plainly laid
muoh haffar a1readvS
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
Preparation of whitevash.

Whitewash is one OF the most valu-
able articles in the world when prop
erly applied. 1t not only prevents
the decay OF wood, but conduces
greatly to the healthfulness OF all
buildings, whether of wood or
stone. 0utbuildings and fences,
when not painted, should be sup
a good coat of whitewash, which should
be prepared in the following way:
Take a clean, water tight barrel, or
other suitable cask. and put into it
half n bushel OF lime. Slack it by
pouring water over it boiling hot, and
in sufficient quantity to cover it FIVE
inches deep. and stir it briskly till thor
oughly slaked. When the shaking has
been thoroughly effected. dissolve in
water and add twopounds ofsulphate
o fzinc and one OF common salt; these
will cause the wash to harden, and
prevent its cracking, which gives an
unseemly appearance to the work.
II desirable, a beautiful cream color
may be communicated to the above
wash by adding three pounds of yell
low ochre, or a good pearl or lead col
or by the addition of lamp, vine Dr.
ivory black. For fawn color, add
four pounds OF lumber, Turkish or
American 1.-THE latter is cheapest), one
pound Of common lampblack. For
common stone color, addfour pounds
of raw lumber and two pounds oflamp-
black. This wash may be applied
with a common whitewash brush, and
will be found superior both in appear
ance and durability to the common
whitewash.-Chicago News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
A woman's Bin of Particulars.

Apretty Polish maiden at Nanti-
coke, Penn, played havoc with the
hearts OF several young men, among
whom were a drug clerk and a miner.
Both worked actively to secure her
hand and tried to Guido each other
in making her presents. After a while
she tired of both OF them and became
engaged to another young Pole.
When Michael Anton, one of the old
lovers, heard OF the engagement, he
became enraged and sued for the
recovery CT his presents or their
equivalent. His bill of particulars
was as follows: Dress goods for we l.
ding dress, SIG; wrap to get married
in, S11; to clergyman, IS; three tick
cts to Wilkesbaire, 81: marriage Ii.
cense. fifty cents; refreshments while
in town. 81; fiddler, $I.5o; making
dress, $3.50; for hustle, corsets, neck
tie, gloves, etc, 5000; wounded af.
fections, loss OF time, etc, S7.2O. This
last item. however. being objected to,
was stricken from the bill. At first
the successful lover refused to pay the
bill, but on the girl declaring that she
would not marry a man who was I'M
willing to pay $42 to keep her out OF
Jail he forked over the money.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
Farm Items.

NJ. p. G. asks for a recipefor ''white-
wash for oat,ofdoor purposes to
stand the weather." For one barrel
OF wash, take half a bushel OF white
lime, three pecks hydraulic cement,
ten pounds ochre, onepound venetian
red, one-fourth pound lampblack.
Stake the lime, cut the lampblack with
vinegar; mix well together; add the
cement and fill the barrel with water.
Let it stand twelve hours before using,
and stirfrequently while putting 1T on.
j believe that many farmers are de-
tered from making an asparagus bed
because OF the direction so often Civ
en- "to trench two spades deep" and to
90 to other needless labor. Spade or
pillow as you would for any ordinary
garden crop. Make the soil rich with
fine manure, and after the first year a
surface dressing will suffice. The
plant food will find the roots or the
roots will find the food. Do not
plant down in the cold subsoil as di-
rected, but set the crowns of one-year-
old roots three or four inches below
the surface. Two feet by three in
beds and three by four for field cul-
ture is close enough for plants. Keep
out the weeds, and the second year
will furnish good cutting. RI, Essex
Co., n. j.
Lime is most effective when applied
to land in the Fall. as it is more solu-
BILE in cold water than in warm. Its
effects are to furnish plant food for
the crops, to decompose organic mat
ter that may exist in the soil, to act
as a solvent OF mineral plant food in
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
Captured by a Penniless Girl,

Some years ago Miss Anna Long
streth was a beautiful, penniless girl,
and worked in the Philadelphia Mint.
One day, a party of sight-seers came
through and stopped to mop their
brows, for it was July, in the adjust
ing-room. This department of the
place is, in the warm months, simply
a BLACK Hole of Calcutta" on a small
scale, and the poor women and girls;
who toll there sometimes till late ut
night, fall down and faint, and are
dragged out to revive by the dozen.
l.ongstreth were Lord Bement, who
owned, and still owns, extensive land
ed interests in the West, and his com
panion, Captain Jasper Richardson,
X. ~, a gallant young blade with an
income of seventy-five thousand
dollars a year. The young
Englishmen we're seeing the
country, and had intended to do" it
from Niagara to the Yosemite. But
captain Richardson fell so desperately
in love with Miss Longstreth, SO com
passionated her condition in the ter
rble heat of the roomf from which, dur.
ing most OF the working hours, all air
and draught were necessarily
excluded, that he concmded to
marry her out of hand if she
would have him. And his friend, Lord
Bement, did his best to help HIM.
They succeeded in persuading Miss
Longstreth's parents, who had been
rich and then were very poor, of the
ge~nuineness OF Captain Richardson's
affection. and the wedding took place.
Her life in London has not thrown
Mrs. Richardson much with other fair
Americans. She has become one of
hes husbands family, and met with
much favor at court. She is described
as a perfect beauty, brunette, tall,
v~oluptuous, with a great coil Of black
hair OF her neck. and her bosom as
open as court rules prescribe even in
London.-San Francisco Argonaut.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21

the soil to neutralize injurious and
noxious acids and compounds that
may exist in theland, to loosen heavy
clay land, and to make loose sandy
soils compact. As lime serves
all these purposes it is one of the
most valuable. fertilizing agents the
farmer can use. The quantity used is
from 80 to so bushels per acre.
The prevalence of the disease known
as distemper seems to indicate that it
is epizootic and due to some prevail
ing cause, perhaps the severity OF the
weather, followed by unusual mild
ness. The disorder is not serious.
The ANIMALS should be kept warm and
the stables clean and web ventilated.
Warm bran mashes, with half an
ounce of ground ginger and a dram OF
chlorate of potash, daily given in the
mash, will be all the treatment that
is required. II the cough is trouble
some and thethroat is tender on pres
sure apply warm mustard paste to the
skin from the jaws downward.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
A somnambulistic Marriage.

Abigail Stark, says the Toledo Blade,
a young, prepossessing girl of the fifth
ward, is a somnambulist. She has
been known to walk distance OF two
miles at a stretch without waking up.
Miss Stark was courted by a young
man from the third ward, John Der
by, a likely fellow, but for some rea-
son he and the old folks could not
get along together. One night. re-
Gently, while John and Abigail were
returning from q party, John pro-
posed that they should get married
without further delay. She asked till
the following evening to consider the
proposition. After he had left his
sweetheart, he went to visit a friend
and returning at a late hour met his
Abigail. He asked her if she had
really determined to marry him that
night and she replied "yes'' in the most
endearing terms. Late as the hour
was they hurried to n minister's and
with his wife for witness, the knot
was Tied. Abigail answered all ques-
tions properly, and was apparently
as happy as John oyer the result.
She had not withdrawn her veil dur
ing the ceremony, nor had John in
raptures thought of asking her to do
so. They decided that she should
return to her aunt's house
and remain there for a day or
two when they shouldg go into their own
home. The following evening he was
again by her side. His first words
were: "My wife now, in spite OF every
one" She looked at him as though
she thought him crazy. .Your wife,
she exclaimed, 81 have not accepted
your proposition yet. You presume
too much, sir" He showed her the
certificate and then it all came back
to her. She said she had gone to her
room after leaving him, and being
very tired had lain down on the bed
without undressing. The circum-
stances OF the marriage had all come
co her as a dream, and when she arose
that morning she had not given the
matter a second thought. But now
that he had recalled the marriage,
she remembered all the details, and
the result was that she determined to
stand by her words.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
Row 10 Dust A Room.

The proper way to dust a room,
says a writer in the New York Mail
and Express, is to begin with the walls.
Pin several thicknesses of cloth over
a broom and sweep the walls down
thoroughly, leaving at the same time
all the doors and windows open. This
matter OF sweeping the walls is i'm.
portanS and should be done once q
week in rooms that are much used.
Then with a damp cloth wipe of the
picture cords and wires, the backs OF
all the picture-trames, and the tops
Of the door and window frames. II
there is any danger of injuring pict-
ures or frames with a damp cloth
use a day one, but wipe them all
of carefully. AS often as you can get
a good draft which will carry away the
dust out CT the window, shake and
beat the curtains, whether they be
Holland, lace, scrim, or what not, for
they are prime sinners i'll the mat
ter OF ~harboring dust. The window
sash, sill, and ~glass-should also re-
ceive attention. Use a large cloth,
with half OF it well dampened for dust
ing, the dry end being useful to wipe
off small articles that might be injured
by dampness-and be careful that
you manipulate the cloth so as to
wipe the dust into it and keep it there.
If it gets dirty have a clean one, and
always wash them out and scald them
after using. II there are inside shut
ters to the windows they need to be
cared for almost as tenderly us a ba-
by. A thorough cleaning every week,
carefully wiping both upper and under
sides OF the Stats, is the only thing
that will keep them in decent order.
A room is not thoroughly busted until
all the furniture and woodwork and
gas fixtures have been cleaned with the
lamp buster. Upholstered furniture
should be taken out, brushed all over
and then wiped with the damp cloth,
not Drgetting the under side.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
A London Fog.

London has had, in the course OF
this month, some OF the most amazing
fogs that ever darkened the air. As
to the way the fogs are formed the
Telegraph says;
"Girded by wide and wet alluvial
fats as she is, every east wind brings
over London the damp exhalations
OF the Lower Thames and Midway.
A high barometer presses the suspend
ed moisture down upon be- streets
and squares and parks; but it would
be clean, white, ana wholesome, rs
fogs are elsewhere, savefor the prod:g-
ious reek OF coal.dust, carbonic acid,
and poisoning particles which the citi-
Zens are perpetually casting into the
air. II the choked Londoner could
analyze the fog, he would find every
molecule ofmoisture studded with car
bon, arsenic, sulphur, and other res
spriatory horrors, the products OF his
own wasteful health, OF his own out
rageously smoky chimney. Paris is
free and clear and pleasant, because
she burns wood; London is filthy and
poisoned, because of the million cowls
and stacks from which thousands of
tons of coalsoot are continuously
poured into the air. Westerly breezes
and low barometers bear these away
in the form OF brown clouds washed
clean by thesweet rain; easterly winds
and a high glass fling them back into
the faces OF the stupid inhabitants,
who have spoiled their own atmos-
phere. Yet we might and should have
set this right long ago, but for the new
er-ending nuisance OF the Irish agita-
ton, which keeps Parliament from at.
tending to the crying necessities OF the
capital"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
Remedy for a siek Cow.

Want Of nutritious food previoust to
calving is acommon u of weakness
after ~calving. The cows system is ex-
hausted by the ealving, and if she is
deficient in strength she falls off rap
idly. Twenty pounds of good hay or
three or four quarts of bran or mid
dlings daily is little enough to keep a
COW in good strong condition through
the winter. After calving this food may
be increased a little il the cow gives az
much as IL n IA quarts OF milk.
To bring up a COW when she
falls of is a difficult matter; it is
easier to keep her up; but the only way
is to give her good food, and, if her
appetite is poor, to give tonics to
strengthen it. In this case give a pint
OF raw linseed oil-not salts, which are
weakening-and repeat in three days
if necessary. Then give n warm bran
slop, with a tablespoonful OF salt and
a teaspoonful OF each ofpowdered sui.
phate of iron and ginger in it once a
day. Some cut turnips or carrots or
potatoes would be useful to the COW.
The drinking water should be warmed
a little and a handfnl offne cornmeal
stirred In it.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
The Massage Treatment.

In nervous prostration and weari.
ness from overwork the tendency of
the blood is to leave the arteries and
become engorged in the veins. Mas.
sage, rightly employed, aids in the res
toration of the normal circulation,
and thus helps the system to right it.
self. The patient is extended upon q
lounge orbed, and the operator begins
with n foot, squeezing it gently with
the hands rs though it were a sponge
filed with water and he were squeezing
the water from it, and working al
ways toward the heart. The hands
OF OF the operator clasp the limbs
with a firm but gentle grasp and apply
this squeezing, pinching pressure all
the , from the hands and feet to
where these limbs join the body, not
rubbing the skin, but pressing and
working the muscles under it. The
muscles OF the neck, chest and abdo-
men will receive the same treatment.
Then the patient gives his back to the
operator. All adown the back are large
veins, and these become ~engorged with
blood. The operator kneads and
pinches, and squeezes and presses all
the muscles of the back for a long time
until n pink tint flushes the skin. All
about the face, the neck, the back Of
the neck, especially, there are many
veins, and the muscles which they
traverse are thoroughly handled until
the circulation is free. The patient
soon begins to find relief and sinks to
sleep, or into delicious disposition
to lie still and rest, which disposition
should be encouraged as long as it
!asts.-New York Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21

saw the wrongs and remedies OF Eng.
lish administrations for Ireland, and
regardless OF its effect upon his own
political fortunes or those Of his partv,
he determined to stake everything up
on giving home rule TO the Irish. He
saw that thus only could peace and
prosperity be restored to that unhap-
Ply people, and this perpetual menace
to the integrity Of the British Empire
removed. He believed that in giving
the few remaining years of his life and
the prestige of his unequalled popular.
lty and power to this cause, he would
IN u measure redress the wrongs OF cen
turtles and save his country from dis
rnption. He failed in the election on
this issue because OF the 1000, 600
who voted with him not one-tenth
believed IN the ideas, and the rest
against their Judgment as to his policy
expressed their devotion TO their lead.
er. But the fight educated the people.
More than q century OF argument.
and now victory in sight. The next
decade will witness the triumph Of
home rule principles. not only in Ire
land, bnt throughout the kingdom.
and in this grand achievement and it's
beneficient results the brightest and
bestowed name in the annals OF Brit
lsh statesmen will always be William
T.. Gladstone"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21
Character Of Hired Hsip.

This is the time for employing
farm help, and farmers would do we'll
to consider the Importance of good
moral character. Rough, profane
and vicious men cannot fail to faint
the morals and manners OF theyoung.
Even for the sake OF his stock and
property a careful nan will not wish
about his premises a vicious or in.
temperate man. Such an one will
destroy more than the value of his
wages. The Christian character
which makes a man trustworthy and
careful OF the interests OF his employer
is valuable on the farm as he is every
where else. Goodness is profitable
for all things" But it is worth while
to carefully distinguish from this a
certain mild. mannerdEess that hasno
backbone and is the result of physical
incapacity or laziness rather than of
principle. It is rather too much to
expect all the cardinal virtues for SIS
or $50 a month, but parents should
insist that help they hire should not
be of a character to contaminate their
children.